By Karin Kloosterman
When I was in university my roommate Catherine once lived in Margaret Atwood’s dorm at Victoria College, University of Toronto. Like many young Canadian women in the post-feminism era, we grew up on writers like Atwood who paved the way for us so we wouldn’t have to be feminists. It was so cool [...]

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By Karin Kloosterman

Smart Hand, a pan-European program to develop a life-like artificial hand, has just released its prototype now functioning on a man in Sweden. Interfacing nerve endings with the mechanical device is Prof. Yosi Shacham from Tel Aviv University.
It is one of the world’s first thought-controlled prosthetic devices –– an artificial life-like hand, and it [...]

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By Lauren Kramer
Tel Aviv University ornithologist Dr. Yossi Leshem starts preparing for an August conference in Israel on the dangers posed to aircraft by birds, you can be sure the word “Canada” will come up in conversation. That’s because our beautiful Canadian Geese have been known to cross international borders with total disregard.
No one seemed [...]

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by Karin Kloosterman

(an image of the peace-making students in action)
Peace. Ah. The elusive word that we like to use so much over here in Israel. Those who are interested will find Israel has belly dancer’s for peace, musicians for peace (that can be divided into an entire range of instruments — see the recent Canada’s [...]

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